Subject: Re: reading from named pipes
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/10/1995 17:51:18
> 
>    I have two processes reading from the same named pipe.
>    The output written to the pipe seems to get evenly split
>    between the two processes.
> 
> The wakeup queue is equivalent to a simple round-robin scheduler.  One
> process is going to complete a read() and then get stuck back at the
> end of the queue.
> 
>    Feature or bug?
> 
> More importantly, why is it an issue?

I have two processes reading from the same pipe. I would like
them to each be getting the same information.